Why Ryan Gosling Thinks Men on ‘The Bachelorette’ Resemble Ken — According to Greta Gerwig
31.07.2023 - 22:33
/ usmagazine.com
Greta Gerwig revealed Ryan Gosling’s surprising reality TV inspiration when it came to crafting the character of Ken for the Barbie movie.
“I’ve never seen The Bachelor, but Ryan Gosling — when we started talking about Ken, he said, ‘Oh, the Kens remind me of [how the contestants] on The Bachelorette [are] when the woman isn’t around. They don’t know what to do with themselves. They’re doing, like, push-ups and they kind of are competitive with each other and if one guy wears glasses and then another guy wears glasses he’s like, no you took my thing, I’m the guy with glasses,’” Gerwig, 39, shared during the Monday, July 31, episode of the “SmartLess” podcast.
Gosling’s innate vision for Ken was just one of the reasons Gerwig knew he was the man for the job.
“We knew we were writing the part [of Barbie] for Margot [Robbie], so in writing we cast Ryan. We wrote his name into the script. It was the thing that I was like, ‘I know.’ And then when we handed them the script the studio was like, ‘Oh that’s so wonderful that you know Ryan.’ And I was like, ‘Oh, I don’t know Ryan. I’ve never met Ryan,’” she recalled on Thursday’s episode. “But you know those actors, whether they do comedy or not, they have funny rhythms in them? You can sort of feel that they know what’s funny? I always felt that about him.”
Gerwig added that while she had to rely on Gosling, 42, about details around The Bachelor franchise, she “probably would love” all of it due to being such a reality TV fan — especially when it comes to dating shows.
“I love Love Is Blind,” she told hosts Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes and Will Arnett. “I love it so much. I love people falling in love on television [and] in their hearts. It just makes me so happy.”
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